Chipped out a path to the street Even with Monday off for the New Year holiday, it’s been an exhausting week. This is mainly because over the course of two days we got 15 inches/38 cm of wet, heavy snow. So much shoveling! And even when it stops snowing there is still shoveling because the …
Author: Stefanie
Avid reader, gardener, librarian, cyclist, and vegan.
New Year Evolutions
Happy New Year! We are not late-night people at my house. After riding my bike 83 miles on Zwift yesterday, I barely managed to keep my eyes open until 9. We did celebrate with burgers from our favorite plant-based cafe though. And today James made us black-eyed pea fritters and rice pilaf for good luck, …
That Dangerous Time of Year
Oh friends, what does a gardener do when the snow is up to her knees and the air temperature is -5F/-20C with a howling wind chill of -30F/-34C? She curls up on the couch beneath a blanket with a book on orchards, seed catalogs, a hot cup of tea, and a huge imagination. It’s the …
Winter Holidays
Just popping in to say that Solstice was marvelous! We got 7.5 inches/19 cm of light, fluffy snow, which made shoveling it pretty quick and easy, for which I am glad because the air temperature was around -4F/-20C with a windchill approaching -30F/-34C. Somehow though I managed to work up a sweat. But who cares …
Welcome Winter!
Snow covered witch hazel This last week a big winter storm hovered over Minnesota for days. I am so glad I don’t live up on the north shore where they had a blizzard and as much as three feet of snow! In the Twin Cities we got rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then Wednesday night …
